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Hmm, I’d keep an eye on eBay for any ‘spares or repair’ bases that might be worth ‘cannibalising’ for the base/fitting/cord, recently came across a listing for a damaged Astro base with the metal body bent/ distorted…"

"Most companies talk a good game with superficial ‘greenwashing’ rhetoric, but ultimately are far more interested in profit. I suppose the fact they offer replacement components at all puts them ahead of other lamp manufacturers in the…"

"S’OK - won’t hand over yet more money just yet. Will see what else they come up with, if, as they say there are to be several new finishes, and a new model.

Difficult to disagree about the white up-stand/bases, they don’t suit the…"

"Thanks, will give this a try. Have done the second bottle now which seems to be flowing fine, and a ‘re-refill’ of the first bottle having cleaned the glass more throughly, but now the flow issue seems to have gotten worse with the wax…"

"Add glycerin 99,5% in steps of about 1ml until desired flow is achieved. When doing so make sure the lamp has completely cooled down and with glycerin of about the same temperature. If you add cold glycerin to warm fluid it will cloud up...if both…"

"OK, so had a ‘stab’ at this yesterday,

The wax poured much easier than I was expecting, so took the opportunity to filter the wax (the wax seemed to have a lot of debris or ‘grit’ which seems another fairly common…"

"Looking at the photo I thought you had discovered a delicious recipe for Lava Tacos or Lava Enchiladas.  Yummy!"

"That's exactly it. This is caused by their formula not the bottles. There is no way they aren't aware of this and I don't know why they haven't fixed it yet. "

"I have two io/lunar bottles with sticking wax. A blue green which is really bad and a pink turquoise which is just slightly bad. I also have a blue pink telstar bottle which can be problematic.  As the wax sometimes sticks on the telstar bottle…"

"Lately for sticky Mathmos lamps I've been pouring the melted wax into large 60ML horticultural syringes and using them to squirt the wax back into the lamps with the master fluid already in them. You could probably find bigger ones, but I…"

"Yes but if the fluid is not too warm (below 20°C) it wont. If you are worried anyway drop the wax in when its cold."

"Hmm, does pouring molten wax directly into the fluid not pose the risk of emulsifying/ clouding?"

"One thing that might help is listening to good fullon psytrance during the whole process...I always do and never fucked up so far...probly has something to do with the choice of music."

"Sure it would but why? Its way easier to do this all in one step and drop the wax into the masterfluid and simply turn it on and wait until it flows. If you drop the wax in without fluid it might smear on the globe and stick again... Why daunting?…"

"Thanks for that - slightly daunting but if the bottle is otherwise a ‘write-off’ anyway might as well give it a shot. 

So can you reinstate the wax prior to refilling the liquid? I figured I could break up the solidified wax into small…"

"For washing you can use tap water, soap and a bottle brush or you can use solvents like acetone. Alcohol doesnt work as it doesnt dissolve wax. Rinse two or three times with distilled water when done, if you used solvents I would also wash with…"